Pimp Daddy Chris Matthews

I really wasn’t going to comment on Chris Matthews completely inappropriate banter with CNBC’s anchor Erin Burnett. But Digby put it in such great perspective I wanted to link to it and quote it.

Anyone who doesn’t understand the insidious nature of sexual harrassment should take a look at the video of that exchange. Here you had a professional woman discussing a very serious and urgent subject on a news program. And Chris Matthews, (in an apparent attempt to disprove the fact that he has a sexual fetish for mature, beefy men) treated her like someone he was trying to pick up in a bar (very clumsily, as you would expect.) She was confused, embarrassed and knocked completely off balance by his inappropriate remarks, made all the worse because she was on the air. (It would have been just as wrong, however, if she’d been in a meeting or in a regular workplace conversation.) The woman was trying to do her job and this moron got all cute acting as if he couldn’t hear a word she said. How “nice” of Matthews to make her feel and look like a fool in front of hundreds of thousands of people. I’m sure she really enjoyed that “compliment.”

I know some might say, hey, she was smiling. She thought it was funny. What the fuck else was she going to do? She’s on the air with Chris Matthews and he totally blindsided her.